I have a 3-year old nectarine tree that looks very healthy in late spring and early summer. Last year it was full of fruit but later dropped every single fruit when they were still small. I suspect ...

If you have peach or nectarine trees, winter is the time to spray them to prevent peach leaf curl. Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease that attacks peaches and nectarines. It appears in spring, ...

Q: I planted a peach tree and a nectarine tree at the same time around three years ago. The nectarine tree is fine, and the peach tree produced fruit the first year with no problem. The second year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week, Tom advises a reader whose apple and pears trees have been plagued by leaf curl year after year - Alamy We have two ...

Q: After losing a prized peach tree to curl disease, I recently ordered a ‘Frost’ peach because I heard it is highly resistant to the disease. Are there other peach trees that are also resistant? A: ...

If the new leaves of your peach or nectarine tree become reddish, puckered and severely distorted, chances are that peach leaf curl is the culprit. This disease is caused by the fungus Taphrina ...